TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Stoke Space , a company that’s developing a fully reusable rocket, has unveiled a new tool to let hardware companies track the design, testing and integration of parts. The new tool, Fusion , is targeting an unsexy but essential aspect of the hardware workflow. Fusion is particularly relevant to startups.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The ability to rent all sorts of things is a logical step in the evolution of a subscription economy , but renting hardware wasn’t necessarily top-of-mind for startups until COVID-19 hit. Working from home during the pandemic created tailwinds for hardware rental companies. This aspect is less relevant in the U.S,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Formerly at Apple, Nils Mattisson is now CEO and co-founder of smart home tech company Minut. The road to recurring revenue for hardware startups. Hardware companies seem to be subject to infant mortality their whole lives. The company has to keep shipping, and customers to keep buying, new products.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

Following today’s funding round, the company has reached a valuation of $1.5 Ledger’s main product is a hardware wallet to manage your crypto assets. With a hardware wallet, you remain in control of your crypto assets. The company first launched the Ledger Nano S. Overall, Ledger has sold over 3 million hardware wallets.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

A new company is looking to do for B2B hardware sales what a growing number of companies have been doing in the consumer sphere, by making it easier for businesses to pay for equipment in instalments through rentals and subscriptions. Hardware-as-a-service. Topi payment methods. Topi: Like a Klarna for B2B transactions.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

Hardware startups are hard, the saying goes, but it isn’t always obvious why they are hard. Image Credits: Prelaunch.com To date, the company had been bootstrapped, but it today announces it is closing its seed round on a SAFE note with a $10 million cap. There’s less of that in the hardware space, the company points out.

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CIO

JANUARY 4, 2024

Intel has set up a new company, Articul8 AI, to sell enterprise generative AI software it developed. The new company’s investors include global investment firm DigitalBridge Ventures. Nvidia’s hardware was used in the development of ChatGPT, a widely adopted and popular AI tool, giving it a crucial head start over its competitors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

AllSpice , a collaborative hub designed for hardware development, came out of private beta on a mission to build a DevOps ecosystem inspired by GitHub. They bonded over frustrations at their respective jobs in what seemed like a hardware industry left behind to rely on PDFs and email to get things done versus software development.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

EnCharge AI , a company building hardware to accelerate AI processing at the edge , today emerged from stealth with $21.7 Speaking to TechCrunch via email, co-founder and CEO Naveen Verma said that the proceeds will be put toward hardware and software development as well as supporting new customer engagements.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

For most of the Information Age, companies that wanted to scale invested in server farms and hired teams to keep them running. Soon after, when I worked at a publicly traded company, our on-prem data center was resilient enough to operate through a moderate earthquake. To get in touch, send a note to guestcolumns@techcrunch.com.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Imagine building some of the most sophisticated hardware-driven technologies in the world — spacecraft, drones or autonomous vehicles. She wasn’t referring to the sophistication of the tools, but the way in which the hardware production toolset is balkanized across both teams and tasks. That brings us here.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

Houston-based ThirdAI , a company building tools to speed up deep learning technology without the need for specialized hardware like graphics processing units, brought in $6 million in seed funding. Their algorithm, “sub-linear deep learning engine,” instead uses CPUs that don’t require specialized acceleration hardware.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

The company designs and manufactures so-called hardware wallets to secure crypto assets. In 2021, the company raised €356 million ($385 million at today’s exchange rate). And the company is adding another €100 million ($108 million) in new funding. Once again, the company has managed to line up a long list of investors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Unlike conventional chips, theirs was destined for devices at the edge, particularly those running AI workloads, because Del Maffeo and the rest of the team perceived that most offline, at-the-edge computing hardware was inefficient and expensive. It’s also not the first company pursuing an in-memory architecture for edge devices.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

To software developers, the process of creating a hardware product can seem distinctly 1980s. Along comes Duro and the $4 million the company just raised, in an attempt to bring some agile methodology sanity to a final-bill-of-materials.top-assembly.final.final.final.final.no-really-final-this-time.xls really-final-this-time.xls world.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Flux cites both the explosion of remote work (which won’t be going away any time soon) and ongoing hardware constraints, such as the chip shortage, as major drivers in the interest surrounding its technology. Wagner tells TechCrunch that the company is taking a GitHub-style approach to monetization.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Software engineers have a host of tooling to organize their projects, chief being Git software like GitLab or GitHub, but hardware engineers today lack that same organizing principle. Today, the company announced an $8.5 million seed round. Image Credits: Flow Engineering.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

You can’t swing an outdated Python manual in this town without hitting half a dozen app analytics suites, but the same cannot be said if you’re a product manager hoping to figure out where you lose customers for smart home hardware. “There isn’t much product analytics in most apps for connected hardware.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

One, most of them are excluded from various payment ecosystems globally due to their size, and two, getting hardware from providers can be expensive. . based fintech Nomod allows these businesses to bypass the card terminal by providing a platform to accept card payments on their phone with no extra hardware. The company has raised $3.4

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2024

CES 2024 will be here before we know it, taking over Las Vegas with throngs of crowds, booths full of products and a lot of companies making claims about how AI is improving their offerings. As noted in our CES preview, though the conference has had its ups and downs of late, it’s increasingly become […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

When Pradyut Paul was a hardware engineering program manager at Apple, he saw firsthand the challenges of building and sharing hardware products using antiquated tools like email and spreadsheets. Bild was in private beta testing with 25 companies, but with the announcement of the funding round, the software is now publicly available.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2022

million from Foundry and Venrock , then crowdfunding its personal robot , the company hit a series of challenges. Today, Swedish social robotics company Furhat Robotics is offering the beleaguered startup a gentle landing in what the Swedish company says is an all-cash deal. “This company spun out of Spiro.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Equipt is a home medical equipment company; it aims to streamline the process for providers and patients to access medical equipment needed for care. The company is looking at expanding its reach in the near future, according to Weisinger. This feeds into its financial model where the company charges for DME and HME consultations.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

First Resonance makes software for making hardware. The company’s Ion platform provides an all-in-one option for anyone who has to manage manufacturing lines, supply chains, engineering and design, among other things. When we first covered them last summer , the company was just getting started.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

We were in his small, modest office in Xili, a university area in Shenzhen that’s also home to many hardware makers. ” Prospects for hardware makers were looking bright until two years ago when the Trump administration began setting trade barriers on China. . “The suit is for the more savvy consumers in the West.”

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CIO

JULY 18, 2023

How Nvidia got here and where it’s going next sheds light on how the company has achieved that valuation, a story that owes a lot to the rising importance of specialty chips in business—and accelerating interest in the promise of generative AI. Efforts to stay in the $1T club Nvidia is driving forward on many fronts.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

If you’re working in hardware development, there’s not a lot of options for collaborative work — at least not until Five Flute came along. If you’re working in hardware development, there’s not a lot of options for collaborative work — at least not until Five Flute came along.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2024

CES 2024 will be here before we know it, taking over Las Vegas with throngs of crowds, booths full of products and a lot of companies making claims about how AI is improving their offerings. As noted in our CES preview, though the conference has had its ups and downs of late, it’s increasingly become […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Valuation with this Series B is not being disclosed, the company confirmed to me. 5 consumer hardware VCs share their 2021 investment strategies. 5 consumer hardware VCs share their 2021 investment strategies. There is already an impressive team of about 60 people at the company, which is another detail that attracted investors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Though we hear about new cultivated meat companies and funding rounds with frankly amazing frequency ( this one happened while I was writing this!), “Using this legacy hardware to cultivate meat requires one to reengineer the cells. It’s just raised $3.2 million to turn its prototype bioreactor into a commercial product.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Audio startup Syng has been building on quite a bit more hype than the average fresh hardware startup, largely because of the team behind it. Founder and CEO Chris Stringer was Jony Ive’s first hire at Apple and worked at the company for 21 years. The company currently supports up to four speakers in a single room.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2024

CES 2024 will be here before we know it, taking over Las Vegas with throngs of crowds, booths full of products and a lot of companies making claims about how AI is improving their offerings. As noted in our CES preview, though the conference has had its ups and downs of late, it’s increasingly become […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Crypto wallet in disguise : Ledger, a company that designs and manufactures crypto wallets, is now flush with actual cash. The company just raised $42 million, Kyle reports. It seems we can’t go that many days without more news on a company cutting jobs. Thursdaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

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Dell EMC

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

As companies refresh to modern technology, it’s imperative to shift operations to a leader in PC hardware lifecycle management.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Luos , a participant in the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield competition this week, wants to make it easy for embedded hardware developers to connect to any hardware component, such as a motor or sensor, then build a reusable configuration profile to give them the same type of flexibility that software engineers have with microservices.

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Ooda Loop

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

These chips — a hybrid of PC processors and Xilinx programmable chips — are engineered to empower hardware companies looking to accelerate power-efficient AI […]

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Today Wikifactory , billing itself as a “GitHub for hardware”, announced it has closed a $3 million funding round, taking it to a total of $4.5M, pre-series A. Karl Marx famously argued in “Das Kapital” that to achieve freedom from the slavery of capitalism, the worker must own the means of production.

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